The police said that the condition of the girl was stated to be critical.
A 16-year-old girl was attacked with a knife and dragged by her hair on a road by a man she had refused to marry, in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. The 47-year-old attacker has been arrested, the police said on Sunday.
A video shows the man, Omkar Tiwari, dragging the badly wounded teen by her hair, holding in his other hand the knife he had stabbed her with late on Saturday evening.
When the video emerged on a social media platform, the police launched an investigation.
The girl is believed to be in a critical state in a government hospital.
According to Raipur's Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prashant Agrawal, the girl worked at Omkar Tiwari's grocery shop at the city's Gudhiyari area.
Mr Agrawal said Tiwari wanted to marry the teen, but she refused and quit her job. Some reports say there was a money dispute.
On Saturday evening, Tiwari, allegedly drunk, barged into the girl's home and started shouting at the family. He allegedly attacked the girl with a knife and stabbed her in the neck. She tried to run away but Tiwari chased her and dragged her by her hair until she collapsed on the road.
Witnesses called the police.
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